Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 3:06 PM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 3:43 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Racine County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMKE 062006 RRA SVRMKE LMZ502-WIC101-WIZ502-062110- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 306 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 410 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...RACINE COUNTY INCLUDING THE ADJOINING WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. AT 304 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES WEST OF RACINE OR 2 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF ROCHESTER MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 28 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR... KANSASVILLE BY 311 PM CDT UNION GROVE BY 317 PM CDT NORTH CAPE BY 317 PM CDT WAUBEESEE BY 319 PM CDT WIND LAKE BY 320 PM CDT TICHIGAN BY 321 PM CDT RAYMOND BY 323 PM CDT KNEELAND BY 326 PM CDT FRANKSVILLE BY 330 PM CDT CALEDONIA BY 330 PM CDT STURTEVANT BY 332 PM CDT THIS IS DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HAASE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
WIZ045>047-051-056>059-062>065-067>070-070035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1142 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN WISCONSIN. A VERY MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE STATE...AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER MINNESOTA WILL ACT TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY FORM THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE...AND THEN MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL SECTIONS AFTER 3 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY DEVELOP. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHES ALONG THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES IN FAR EASTERN WISCONSIN...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON. BROWNING/JDH.
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
WIZ045>047-051-056>059-062>065-067>070-070035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1142 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN WISCONSIN. A VERY MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER THE STATE...AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER MINNESOTA WILL ACT TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY FORM THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE...AND THEN MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL SECTIONS AFTER 3 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES MAY DEVELOP. THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHES ALONG THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES IN FAR EASTERN WISCONSIN...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON. BROWNING/JDH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Walworth | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 58 min |
| Jun 6, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Jefferson | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.